postcreole

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pósti

Proto-Italic *posti

Old Latin poste

Latin post

English post-

Portuguese crioulobor.

Spanish criollo

French créolebor.

English Creole

English creole

English postcreole

From post- + creole.

Adjective

postcreole (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) After a creole; after decreolization has taken place.
   • 2010, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, page 870:

     There is a postcreole situation when the creole has lost most of its speakers, as in Louisiana […]

Noun

postcreole (plural postcreoles)

1. (linguistics) A creole language after decreolization has taken place.

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